Documents
The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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Date: June 14 - 28, 1917
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to transfer Elizabeth Kemp from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Transfer Elizabeth Kemp
Date: June 27, 1917 - June 13, 1919
This material includes correspondence concerning Herman Kelly. This includes letters, a photograph, and his memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Herman Kelly Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - September 20, 1917
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of John Flinchum. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: John Flinchum Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - June 19, 1919
This material includes correspondence concerning the competenecy evaluation of Isaac Willis. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Isaac Willis Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - September 20, 1917
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of Agnes Hatch. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Agnes Hatch Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - June 27, 1918
This document contains correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Maude Cooke. This includes letters, a photograph, and her memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Maude Cooke Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - September 24, 1917
This document contains correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Margaret Raiche. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Margaret Raiche Competency Evaluation
Date: June 27, 1917 - February 20, 1918
This document contains correspondence concerning the heirship of deceased former student Samuel Tingley. This includes letters inquiring as to who will acquire Tingley's funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Inheritance of Samuel Tingley
Date: June 27, 1917 - June 13, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning former student Henry P. Sutton. Sutton had graduated from Carlisle and requested certification of his educational status, which would allow him to attend the Haskell Institute.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Reports
View Document: Henry P. Sutton Competency Evaluation
Date: June 28, 1917 - September 20, 1917
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of Mary Wilmet. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Mary Wilmet Competency Evaluation
Date: June 28, 1917 - May 2, 1918
This material includes correspondence about the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Flora Peters. This includes letters, a photograph, and her memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Flora Peters Competency Evaluation
Date: June 28, 1917 - April 6, 1921
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Lena Parker. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Lena Parker Competency Evaluation
Date: June 28, 1917 - April 6, 1921
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of 1917 graduate Evelyn Schingler. This includes letters and a photograph.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Evelyn Schingler Competency Evaluation
Date: June 28, 1917
Superintendent John Francis Jr. requests information from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding appropriations and funds for the 1918 fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Funding
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information Regarding 1918 Fiscal Year Finances
Date: July 20, 1917 - August 2, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Susan Godfrey to have her son Frank returned to his home in Minnesota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Frank Godfrey
Date: July 20 - 27, 1917
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into Max LaChapelle from the Examining Officer, Second Training Camps in Detroit, Michigan.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Background Inquiry of Max LaChapelle
Date: June 27, 1917 - August 25, 1917
This material includes correspondence concerning 1917 graduate Lyman Madison. This includes letters, a photograph, and his memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Student
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Lyman Madison Competency Evaluation
Date: July 28, 1917 - July 24, 1919
This material includes correspondence concerning George Warrington. This includes letters, a photograph, and his memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: George Warrington Competency Evaluation
Date: July 30, 1917 - May 2, 1918
This material includes correspondence concerning the competency evaluation of Uneeda Burson. This includes letters, a photograph, and her memorandum.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
View Document: Uneeda Burson Competency Evaluation
Date: August 4, 1917
These materials contain correspondence from Esther White to Commissioner of Indian Affair Cato Sells, thanking him for arranging her enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Esther White Request to Enter Carlisle
Date: August 13 - 18, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by David Hill, a Canadian-born member of the Mohawk Nation, to enroll at Carlisle. His request is denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request by David Hill to Enroll
Date: August 17, 1917 - September 14, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from outing patrons Henry and Clara McEwen that Carlisle allow outing pupils for work on Pennsylvania farms during the upcoming fall. Their request is denied because of curriculum changes at the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Outing Pupils by Henry and Clara McEwen
Date: August 20, 1917 - September 25, 1917
This material includes correspondence regarding two students on the outing program on the farm of Jesse Webster. Webster is requesting an exception to a new outing program guideline that students return to the school for academic work in August, citing wartime government demands for more food production.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence on Outing Guideline Wartime Exception
Date: August 22, 1917
This document contains a letter concerning the appendicitis case of Nora Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Nora Buffalo
Date: August 23, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Martha Napawat Thomas to have her son Dennis Thomas returned home in order to attend a local business college.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Dennis Thomas Home